Fashions of the future as imagined in 1893!
The quiet radicalism of All That:
The original cast included four girls (Denberg and Reyes, with Angelique Bates and Katrina Johnson) and three boys (Kenan Thompson, Kel Mitchell, and Josh Server); three white performers, and four performers of color. Compare that to the concurrently running Season 20 of Saturday Night Live (1994-95), which featured a cast of 17. Only four were women, and only two were of color.
The Nation takes on the Cecily McMillan case:
In her opening argument last week, assistant district attorney Erin Choi tried to use McMillan’s outcry during the arrest against her. Choi quoted McMillan asking onlookers, “Are you filming this? Are you filming this?” Choi’s implication was that McMillan didn’t want her premeditated attack on tape. But anyone who has ever covered a protest knows that this is what demonstrators say when they feel they’re being mistreated—it’s a call for documentation, not for turning the cameras off.
Michael Robbins’ top five metal albums and their poetic counterparts:
4. Guns N’ Roses, Appetite for Destruction (Geffen, 1987). Yes, there’s filler, but this record’s had its hooks — and what hooks — in me since I first saw the video for “Sweet Child o’ Mine” in high school. Someone pointed out to me that there are more allusions to GN’R in my first book of poems, Alien vs. Predator, than to any other band or author. Therefore my own work is the poetic counterpart of Appetite for Destruction. If that’s too obnoxious, well, so are GN’R. But please also see, for destruction and appetite, Chelsey Minnis’s Poemland and Ooga-Booga by Frederick Seidel.
Real talk, would you buy a haunted house? Not this one, obviously, but is that something that would be a feature or a detriment to you? I might buy one if there were NO apparitions appearing in mirrors behind you. That’s a dealbreaker, ladies.
Oh, boy. Boy oh boy oh boy. Did Deanna Mauricio, formerly of Saint Patrick’s Elementary School in Kingston, Ontario, write this scholarly treatise while tormenting her peers who would grow up to be successful blog owners? YEAH, DEANNA, YOU WERE A REAL BITCH.
I have a question for you! Do you take a long time to make decisions, or do you make snap decisions? I decide everything instantly, and the idea that people don’t always know exactly what they want is very curious to me, though it seems sensible, and also probably leads to better decisions. Do you need to think about things?
I think Tyler was pretty classy, here!
I’m giving you a Game of Thrones thread at 9:30am, so maybe go get coffee or say three things to your boss to buy yourself some time later. What other shows are you sufficiently into that you would like the occasional designated thread? I am willing to entertain the following options:
The Americans
Scandal
Mad Men
The Mindy Project
Nashville
My Cat From Hell
